Florida Keys Weekly
  • This Mother’s Day, I need to thank a special bunch of women. I call them The Mommies, although that’s nowhere cool enough a name for our little troop of ladies. We met 13 years ago when our kids were not even old enough to roll over, when some of us still carried the poor babies [...]

  • Lisa Kendrick began a new competitive cheerleading team in Marathon this year. The team’s name? “Keys Madness”! The team consists of nine girls who attend different Keys schools: Stacie Colon, Zamaira Ricart, Kacie Butler, Delaney Collins, Liz Cohen (not pictured), Hannah Child, Alex Pabon, Elizabeth Kyle and Noelys Almodovar. The team performed at the Seafood [...]

  • Key West runner Roy Coley had already finished the Boston Marathon and was two blocks away when two blasts rocked the finish line. “The surreal part for me was that my daughter, Amy, had been standing in front of the Lennox Hotel where one of the bombs went off. That’s where she was,” said Coley, [...]

  • The Marathon Veterinary Hospital’s grand opening was a big hit with the two-legged and four-legged crowd. At least a hundred people came out this week to tour the new facility and mingle as Misery Loves Company entertained the gathering with music. Veterinarians Geraldine Diethelm  and  Doug Mader, far right, pose with Della and Hunter. Some [...]

  • Tom Corcoran, eclectic Key West character

    I have been told that my portrayal of island life is darned accurate, so Keys residents enjoy seeing themselves through my characters. A lot of people from “up north” say that my descriptions warm them in winter and make them long for return visits to the Keys. Aside from that, I think my avoidance of clichés and my examples of island humor make folks want to keep reading the novels.

    Tom Corcoran, eclectic Key West character

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